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When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorschach inkblot tests. Never before or since has there been such a detailed study of governmental leaders who orchestrated mass killings.

Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests.

Der Mensch ist nicht berechenbar. Aber er hat einen berechenbaren Doppelgänger. Es ist der homo oeconomicus, das Gedankenmodell...

In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups and encouraged to bully, harass and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so, too, are cooperation and harmony.

In The Leap, bestselling author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. As part of this engaging and deeply reported narrative, Boser visits a radio soap opera in Rwanda that aims to restore the country’s broken trust, profiles the man who brought honesty to one of the most corrupt cities in Latin America, and explains how a college dropout managed to con his way into American high society.

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where, remarkably, most remain unread.

Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder? After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly perplexed by the American obsession with one topic above all others: happiness. The subject came up everywhere: at the playground swings, at the meat counter in the supermarket, and even at the gynecologist.

"Lügenpapst" Jack Nasher hat in seinem Buch die effektivsten Verhörtechniken der psychologischen Forschung und internationaler Geheimdienste zusammengetragen, die Sie sofort in Ihrem Alltag umsetzen können! Basierend auf den neuesten Erkenntnissen versorgt er uns mit den knallharten Manövern der Profis, ihren Fragetechniken und Verhaltensanalysen. Eine wirkungsvolle Mischung aus Spionage und Psychologie - spannend wie "CSI", "Lie to me" oder "The Mentalist". Dank Nashers Anleitung verwandelt sich der Hörer in einen menschlichen Lügendetektor.

Il nous arrive à tous de connaître des problèmes relationnels à répétition ou d'avoir des réactions disproportionnées face à certains événements. Nous devrions y porter attention, car c'est souvent le signe d'un transfert. Autrement dit, nous réagissons dans la situation actuelle, vis-à-vis de nos interlocuteurs d'aujourd’hui, comme par le passé avec nos parents.

Warum zweifeln schon fünfjährige Mädchen an ihrem Mathe-Talent? Was hat heißer Kaffee mit Lob zu tun? Wann ist auf unser Bauchgefühl Verlass? John Bargh entschlüsselt das Unbewusste. In verblüffenden Experimenten entlarvt er es als einen schnellen und effektiven Arbeitsmodus unseres Geistes, der parallel zum Bewusstsein existiert und uns hilft, zu überleben. So steuern Prägungen aus der Vergangenheit, das gegenwärtige Bauchgefühl und Ziele für die Zukunft unser Verhalten, bevor das Denken überhaupt einsetzt. Der freie Wille ist damit stark begrenzt.

In "Endlich leben! statt überleben" geht es darum, wie Sie Ihr Leben in eine Richtung lenken können, die Ihnen ganz persönlich am meisten Spaß macht. Sie werden hören, wie Sie Ihre "innere Schnur" erkennen und lösen können, mit der Sie sich unbewusst und ungewollt innerhalb bestimmter Grenzen festhalten.Es geht um die Bedeutsamkeit Ihrer Gefühle und Wünsche. Und was Sie tun können, um in außergewöhnlich hohem Ausmaß glücklich, erfolgreich und voller Kraft und Lebensfreude zu sein.

De nationalité autrichienne, Sigmund Freud est le créateur de la science psychanalytique. Son œuvre constitue l'un des événements les plus importants qu'ait eu à enregistrer l'histoire des sciences de l'esprit. Cet essai traite des grandes lignes de la doctrine de l'auteur concernant l'Inconscient et le rôle capital dans la personnalité humaine des trois instances psychiques constitutives de l'esprit humain : Le Moi, le Ça et le Sur-Moi.

Jack Nasher, Wirtschaftspsychologe und Mentalist, zeigt auf eindrucksvolle Weise, wie man in kürzester Zeit Lügen durchschauen...

Wie treffen wir unsere Entscheidungen? Warum ist Zögern ein überlebensnotwendiger Reflex, und was passiert in unserem Gehirn, wenn wir andere Menschen oder Dinge beurteilen? Daniel Kahneman, Nobelpreisträger und einer der einflussreichsten Wissenschaftler unserer Zeit, zeigt anhand ebenso nachvollziehbarer wie verblüffender Beispiele, welchen mentalen Mustern wir folgen und wie wir uns gegen verhängnisvolle Fehlentscheidungen wappnen können.

Your Mind: An Owner's Manual for a Better Life combines extensive psychological research with decades of clinical practice and delivers its wisdom in a practical, easy-to-digest narrative. Through examples and exercises, Drs. Cortman and Shinitzky present a step-by-step strategy to help you make use of the truths and become a happier, healthier you.

It happens everywhere: offices, schools, even your own backyard. And, seemingly, anything can trigger it: cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your spouse. We all know certain things get under our skin. Can science explain why? NPR's Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman take you on a scientific quest through psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and other disciplines to uncover the truth about being annoyed.

iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology, resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the "psychology of technology," Dr. Larry Rosen offers clear, down-to-earth explanations for why many of us are suffering from an "iDisorder" - and what to do about it.

Trouble sleeping, panic attacks, knots in your stomach, excessive worry, doubts, phobias - anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes, and affects millions of people. But you don’t have to suffer anymore. In Retrain Your Anxious Brain, renowned therapist and anxiety expert John Tsilimparis, MFT, shares the groundbreaking program he’s created to help hundreds of people (himself included) free themselves from crippling anxiety and live healthier, happier lives.

Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.

Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science a picture emerges. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses these two fields to create a coherent story of human nature. In his analysis, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors—one-night stands, prejudice, conspicuous consumption, even art and religious devotion—are quite explicable and (when desired) avoidable.